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Artefactual evidence

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Just digging

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Crafts

Conferences

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

More comparative studies

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Experimental reconstruction

Experimental Archaeology

Documentary record search

Comparing excavated sites

Recording artefacts in situ